Music Reviews
Nothing Is Sound by Switchfoot
Switchfoot is a fairly new indie band that is emerging quite well in my area. I do not know if the rest of the country, or the world, for that matter, are aware of Switchfoot, but I really like this band and see them as a great up and …
Donny Osmond: 25 Hits CD
In 1995, Curb Records put out Donny Osmond: 25 Hits CD which is basically exactly what it sounds like, a CD with a collection of 25 songs that were hits for Donny Osmond. A couple of them do include his sister, Marie. They also cover his career …
The Flaming Lips - Thanks To You (Song)
Thanks To You is a song by The Flaming Lips and the eighth song on their second effort, Oh My Gawd. Opening up with a clean guitar part, I’m slightly reminded of a tone Led Zeppelin would come up with on one of their earlier records until the vocals …
The Grateful Dead - Anthem Of The Sun
Overview - Anthem Of The Sun, the second album by The Grateful Dead, departs from the simplistic songwriting that The Dead showcased on their self-titled debut album and departs into more experimental and complex songs. Most of these songs contain varying moods and energies just within the song itself …
Queen’s Greatest Hits CD
I have a great CD to review, and that is of the rock band Queen’s album, Greatest Hits. I love Queen and consider the band to be one of the great classic rock bands of the past century. Freddie Mercury was a genius at writing songs and his vocals …
The Flaming Lips - Pilot Can At The Queer Of God (Song)
Pilot Can At The Queer Of God is a song by The Flaming Lips which appears on their album Transmissions From The Satellite Heart. Although the opening riff of the track has a surprisingly heavy feel to it, Coyne surprisingly comes in with a vocal delivery which works with …
Tool
Sometimes I just get sick of listening to bands like Panic at the Disco, Fall Out Boy, Metro Station, Paramore, or any other of those kind of pop rock bands. Just like with a meal, I want something with substance. Sometimes I want to hear lyrics that address serious …
Beautiful Lady (song by, Gyptian)
Gyptian is a reggae artist who seems new on the scene but he really isn’t that new, he has been doing a lot of collaborations but he recently released his first single with the name entitled “Beautiful Lady.”
I first heard this song on the local radio airwaves and it …
Nirvana With The Lights Out
With The Lights out is a box set of unreleased material by Nirvana, 3 CD’s and a DVD, promising everything unreleased. The year after the release of this set an album Sliver, the best of the box was released, a collection of standouts with 2 unreleased songs not on …
Love is a Battlefield
While the artist might not have had many hits, this one certainly proves to be the most endearing of her discography. It’s a staple of any good 80s soundtrack and still has a punchy enough tune to get the toes tapping now.
For an eighties track, it’s all there. …
Faster Pussycat
I love the album Faster Pussycat by Faster Pussycat. I had never heard of this 1980’s hair band until about 4 years ago when my boyfriend bought a DVD that had one of their songs on it and I fell in love with it.
So my sister gave me …
The Flaming Lips - Summertime Blues (Song)
Summertime Blues is a song by The Flaming Lips and the final track on their album Hear It Is, if you own an early copy of the record which includes this bonus track. Opening up with a distorted guitar riff, the song takes on a more aggressive rock sound …
The Grateful Dead - I Need A Miracle (Song)
I Need A Miracle is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on their album Shakedown Street. The track opens up with a nice rock and roll rhythm which gives a nice ground for the vocals to sing over. The vocal melody on this track works very well …
Song: Hey Ya sung by Outkast
The song Hey Ya is a goofy type of song by the singing group Outkast. I heard it first when my boyfriend would play it all the time. I never really paid attention to the lyrics until recently though because it was just, to me a weird song. I …
Iron Maiden - Blood On The World’s Hands (Song)
Blood On The World’s Hands is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their record The X Factor. The track starts off with a keyboard part which establishes somewhat of an eerie mood to the track and makes me hopeful that the song will build. I’m not exactly …
Megadeth - Victory (Song)
Victory is a song by Megadeth which is the closing track of their album Youthanasia. The track starts off with Mustaine singing in an incredibly angry mood along with a bass line and a heavy guitar rhythm which comes in and out of the song. If you’re familiar with …
Metallica - Broken, Beat, And Scarred (Song)
Broken, Beat, and Scarred, the third track off of Death Magnetic continues the pattern of songs which sound a lot closer to tracks which Metallica were writing during their earlier days, the 1980s and very early 1990s. Broken, Beat, and Scarred has somewhat of an eastern sound to it …
Bob Dylan - Billy 7 (Song)
Billy 7 is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on the soundtrack Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid. The track opens up with a simple acoustic guitar pattern before Dylan comes in with the vocals. For those of you who have heard the rest of this soundtrack, these …
If I had You Music Video by Adam Lambert
Adam Lambert is the runner up of Season 8 American Idol. The Times describe him as an openly gay pop and rock artist and you can see it in the latest music video of Adam of the song If I had you. At first view, I hats down with …
Do what you want song
Drake Bell is a great composer!He`s not just a composer but a great singer!Do what you want is a great song of his.The music has a attractive and lively melody.Anyone …
Soundgarden A Sides
Another favorite grunge type band of mine is Soundgarden. Soundgarden’s A-Sides is a sort of greatest hits CD that will take you through a journey of music that is inspiring and lovely, all at the same time. Soundgarden A-Sides contains my personal favorites such as Rusty Cage, Burden In …
Iron Maiden - Gates Of Tomorrow (Song)
Gates Of Tomorrow is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their record Dance Of Death. The track opens up with a pretty upbeat sounding guitar riff, which Harris’ bass reinforces, before leading into a slightly more aggressive section which has a slight galloping riff to it. The …
Black Label Society Mafia
Black Label Society released their studio album,”Mafia,” in 2005.The album propelled the band to superstar status.Zakk Wylde had already received stardom while performing with legendary singer Ozzy Osbourne.However, Black label Society was Zakk’s own music, and songwriting.When Mafia was released it solidified the guitarist/singers own artistic endeavors.Black Label Society …
The Doors - Maggie M’Gill (Song)
Maggie M’Gill is a song by The Doors which appears on their record Morrison Hotel. The track opens up with a guitar lead which has simultaneous parts going on in the left and right channels with the drums and bass going straight down the center, the effect applied here …
Cannibal Corpse The Wretched Spawn
This is the 9th album by the band and the last to Feature Jack Owen on guitar (he was later replaced by Rob Barret) the album was recorded in El Paso Texas with Neil Kernon and Cannibal Corpse and released in 2004 on Metal Blade Records, like all the …
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (Music Video)
Overview —“ 21st Century Breakdown, the latest music video released for the album of the same name is a music video that goes with an approach that Green Day never went with previously, they approach it by animating the video through graffiti. The music video still follows the traditional …
Rush Live in Rio DVD
A great live DVD by a great progressive band is the Rush live in Rio DVD. This is a really good live DVD. It features the three virtuosos playing a big set in Rio and the crowd just goes crazy especially for the big Rush songs like Tom Sawyer, …
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation (song)
Wave of Mutilation is the third song off of the pixies 1989 album Doolittle. While many state Surfer Rosa as the overall best Pixies album, I would have to disagree and say Doolittle is my favorite album of theirs. There are so many great tracks off of it, with …
Animal Collective - Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished (Album)
Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished is the debut record from Animal Collective. Comprised of ten tracks, three of which being instrumentals, the overall sound of the record can be characterized as experimental, psychedelic, and even fantasy-like. Although the album does have some tracks on it which I personally …
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Pavement’s “Slanted and Enchanted” is one of the quintessential indie-rock albums of the 1990s. There is a certain rawness to the whole affair — dissonance, and fuzzy production values give this album a homemade feel. The lyrics have a distinctly post-modern, sometimes dark tone to them, while others …
Mastodon Leviathan CD
American Metal heads Mastodon have created a style that is all their own.
Their first album, “Remission” blew everyone away with their raw, crunching and meat grinding riffs, explosive solos, throaty vocals and amazingly complex yet hard hitting drums. The sound quality was a little shoddy, but it mattered not. …
Famous Last Words by Hedley
To me this is one of the best albums of 2007. The first time I heard “For The Nights I Can’t Remember” on the radio I knew I had to have this album. The lyrics were way better than some in the first album. Songs like “Dying To Live …
Nine Inch Nails - Sanctified (Song)
Sanctified is a track by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their first album, Pretty Hate Machine. The track opens up in a very tribal manner with some eerie tones before a bass guitar comes in followed by Reznor’s voice. The entire introduction of this song and the verse …
Let Me In song
From their The Plan CD, a project from the early 70’s that was done with much passion, Let Me In is one of my two favorite songs from this album. The album itself tells the story of the The Osmonds’ religious beliefs. Now one of the cool …
Mumford And Sons - Winter Winds (Song)
Winter Winds is a song by Mumford and Sons which appears on their debut record, Sigh No More. Like with most of the tracks on this record, the song opens up with the very characteristic sound of Mumford and Sons which is comprised of instrumentation which generally does not …
Paramore
If you like listen emo song, you should know about this band. Paramore is one of my favorite band ever, They formed in 2004 in Franklin, Tennessee, with five members, they are Hayley Williams (vocal), josh farro (lead guitar), Jeremy Davis (bass), Zac farro (drum), Taylor York (rhytm guitar). …
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Overview —“ Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is the Black Sabbath album which I personally used to consider my favorite. After listening to this record and Paranoid within a few days of each other, I have to say that it’s definitely a tough contest. Part of me really likes Paranoid because …
Television’s Greatest Hits - Volume 5: The 60’s and 70’s CD
Television’s Greatest Hits - Volume 5: The 60’s and 70’s is a collection of 65 TV themes on CD. Talk about fun. This CD transports the listening back in time to visit with old friends in all genres of television. A minute ago I listened to …
Kuff (song by Shelly Thunder)
I am sure this one sounds far out, but yes, Kuff is the name of a song by an artist named Shelley Thunder who is a dancehall artist or queen. It is now a song which we would call Old School here in Trinidad and a few other Caribbean …
Ke$ha: Take it off song
Take it off: this is one of my favorite songs off of Kesha’s debut
album, animal. When I first listened to the song, i didn’t like it because the beat of the song is electric sounding. It reminds you of some of the Veronica songs but after awhile I got …
Ryan Adams and The Cardinals - CARDINOLOGY
October 28th saw the release of Ryan Adams 11th album since his split in 99′ from alt country pioneers ‘Whiskeytown’, it is also his 3rd full length album with his current backing band ‘The Cardinals.’
The Cardinals appear to have been the catalyst for Adams’ more surefooted outings of late …
Garth and Walmart by Garth Brooks
Garth and Wal-Mart is a parody done by Garth Brooks. I love this song. It should be a wake up call to all Americans that Wal-Mart is part of the decline in our lifestyle and economy here in America. Wal-Mart has already run out millions of small businesses who …
The Who Tommy
This is The Who’s fourth album, Tommy, a 1969 double album, (a single album on cd) a concept album or “rock opera” about a deaf dumb and blind kid, the album tells the story of Tommy, Tommy’s father is an airforce pilot who goes missing in WWI before he …
Sugar by Demure
I came across this song on MySpace and was quite drawn to the singer. She has a tone that kind of reminded me of Amy Winehouse, but without all the gravel in her voice. The song’s lyrics kind of confused me at first. But then …
Diana Ross (1976) by Diana Ross
As I was still browsing through my dad’s old records, I also found, amongst my discovery, Diana Ross (1976) by Diana Ross. I checked the value of this CD now, and I was amazed at the $149 price tag. True blue royal record.
I bet the price befits …
Rubber Soul (The Beatles Album)
The reason I decided to review this album in particular is because I consider it to be one of the most underrated albums of all time. You are probably thinking, “HAH! The Beatles… underrated?!” Yes, yes I’ve heard it before, but I’ve held onto my opinion over the years, …
Cheap Seats : Truth and Soul Sessions EP
Sometimes, the best things are found in the strangest of places. From the midst of the often incredibly angsty underground music scene comes a completely unexpected ray of sunshine in the form of a band with a typically ironic name — Cheap Seats.
The band at first glance is rather …
Amos Lee - Mission Bell (2011) Album
For the last few days i have been listening to the upcoming album from Amos Lee titled Mission Bell. At first i wasn’t too sure how i’d go with it as i had never really heard of him before, but i have an eternal quest to discover artists and …
Limewire Music Downloader Free Edition
I had used Bearshare for years in downloading music but it seemed that they only have a few selections and seeders (people who share and upload) so my husband told me to switch to Limewire and just get the free version as it is still better then Bearshare.
When I …
Watching You by Rodney Atkins
This song is a great example for all the parents out there. And I like how the lyrics convey a serious issue in a very comical way. A lot of parents don’t believe that the way they act and what they say affects their children. But it really does. …
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